#hobonichi 5 year

[tea-tuesday]

(belated) new pen alert + updating my 5-year hobonichi ! a few months ago, i got a lamy safari in the piña colada colorway. unfortunately, the EF nib was SO scratchy and awful, but i got a replacement nib and switched to a different ink, and it flows much better! it is not my favorite fountain pen but i do love how colorful the body is. i'm also behind on my 5-year hobonichi so i have been filling in past missing entries, such as my trip to copenhagen and stockholm last month 💆‍♀️ although not being a student anymore feels strange, i have so much time to catch up on my previously neglected journals :))

[orangezeppelin]

More OG Animal Crossing in my journal, my quest for the golden axe has begun and now I just need to maintain a perfect town for 14 more days. I'm not 100% sure why 7 year old me picked "middleto" as the town name, but I'm very fond of my old town.

I've had a lot of side-towns on other memory cards but I've deleted many of them over the years. One of the remaining ones has a very cool layout so I'm considering starting a fresh character and reviving the landscape there.

I also want to draw up a map like this (only nicer!) for my New Horizons town based on the 1973 Wicker Man.

[eggbunni]

Decided to be a fountain pen masochist and actually ink up my Pilot Kakuno with Organics Studio Nitrogen. Eeee!

Also crazy to see how much my “quick” handwriting has changed in a year.

Book is the Hobonichi 5-Year. ✒️✨

[tentacleonastick]

ammonite

[katerpotater]

I splurged on this beautiful 5 year, once a day Hobonichi journal and this beautiful embroidered cover.

I LOVE IT. I'm actually journaling again because it's so much less pressure to just fill in a few lines each day.

[2057]

[iasminaedina]

Hobonichi Techo 2023 Haul // cozy stationery unboxing

My 2023 Hobonichi Techo haul and unboxing! Finally, one of my favourite parts of the year, my annual stationery haul from the japanese planner and stationery brand Hobonichi. This year I got the original a6 techo as my main planner, along with some accessories. I also unbox the a5 five year techo and a6 day free. Hobonichi site: https://www.1101.com/store/techo/en/ More of my art and stationery…

[syysyys]

♡𐙚 iso new planner, any recs? ✉⋆ ˚｡ ⋆୨୧˚

hii im trying to decide what planner to get for classes in the fall.. here are my preferences, if you have a suggestion pls pls pls share, i'd appreciate it sm ૮꒰ ˶ ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

weekly spreads > monthly spreads

weeks start on monday

only need it for the academic year (august-may), but more months okay

smaller size, 5" x 8" ideal but smaller okay!

i like lines but no check boxes, and must be dated

love plain neutral colors or floral designs, esp pinks and blues

last year i used a blue sky weekly planner (from target), and in the past i've used a hobonichi techo weeks! i love my bluesky sm but i wanna see if others work better!

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[nowoyas]

woke up this morning to my mom texting asking about hobonichi 5 year journals for my brother and sister in law as christmas presents which a) she has no fucking idea the storm she has wrought asking me about stationery b) we're now doing a group order since my order is shipping to her house anyway so I now get free shipping babey and c) she asked about "manly" covers for jake and thinks both the jiary and the dark cherry cow leather cover are "too feminine" for my catholic brother

[rhysnolastname]

Also Jacob Fudefan has already confirmed on multiple occasions the only paper affected is the 5 year hobonichi planner. So if you have any of their other planners, it’s fine.

[tea-tuesday]

currently doing peachtober for the first time in my hobonichi 5-year🍑 !! i've never been much of an artist but this is my best attempt.. i haven't done today's entry yet but yesterday, i went into the city to trim my bangs and explore union market 📚☕️

[orangezeppelin]

Documented another Animal Crossing (Gamecube) victory, and that is maintaining a perfect town for 15 straight days and claiming the golden axe! 'Course now I don't wanna cut any of my trees down, but it will be helpful in getting my side town looking good too.

This guide was very helpful in cracking the code in exactly what counts as "perfect" https://acthefansclub.proboards.com/thread/224/ac-perfect-town-guide

[eggbunni]

Officially on Year 3 of my Hobonichi 5 Year! Just two more years in this thing and I can finally move oooooon. 😂 I’m gonna take it out of this cover so it feels “new” again. 👀

[blueberry-lemon]

[lmfao i realized after posting this that, visually, this accidentally looks like some sort of ad or blazed post on the dashboard. im so sorry hahaha] I've always wanted to keep a journal.

In high school, I was really into reading journal comics (they're still one of my favorite genres of comic by far), and started drawing one myself. I drew a comic once a day, every day, for all of 10th grade and kept it in a binder to show friends at school.

I did scattered little journal comics after that, just a strip here and there. Then, in college, I had a storyboarding professor who had us draw on an index card on each day of class to mark how we're feeling. Inspired by that, my roommate and I drew a post-it of what we did each day and stuck it on the wall for two semesters. In other words, 1-panel daily journal comics.

I like journaling because it helps put the good days and bad days into wider perspective. Even the deepest pits of anxiety or sadness are eventually faded away and joined by really happy and mundane days.

Since then, I've tried a Hobonichi Planner. I've tried poems on Cohost. I always fall off. I've tried the Daylio App and Notion. I feel too guilty and embarrassed once I've missed too many days.

Then I heard about "5-Year Journals."

Each page is a day, for example "January 5th." No days-of-the-week listed. It's split into 5 sections, for different years. You write in it each day. Then when the year comes around, you keep using the same journal, writing underneath your previous year's entry.

This really appealed to me for two reasons.

It won't be a huge deal if I miss a day, or a week, or a whole month. I won't feel guilty because it doesn't really matter. It's not putting the book to waste, there's no day-of-the-week listed to make the page feel obsolete the year after, and I'll just get those days I missed when I come back around in 2025 or 2026. So even if certain years have gaps, each page will eventually have something.

It'll be fun to read the entries from previous years as I keep going, and see how I've changed.

So far I'm having a good time! I recommend them. Brand-wise I got a Levenger although I'm sure there are cheaper versions. Or just do it in a spiral notebook, who cares? With my handwriting I can fit like 4 or 5 sentences per entry. The fact that I'm not posting them publicly, or drawing anything, will probably help me.

[loser-female]

What app do you use to manage your life and your long term projects?

I have adhd and god I can't find anything that suits me. I'm so exhausted.

Hi!

It's complicated as each project has its own "method". I'm going to cover both work projects and personal ones and studying.

My problems with projects are:

Since, for the most part, I cannot see a "finished result" I feel no satisfaction in doing them;

I have a terrible perception of time regarding days;

I tend to have issues if I leave a project for more than a couple of days.

Also, I'm using David Allen definition of projects, which is "Activity that needs two or more actions to be completed". I really like the getting things done method to organise my works stuff. I wouldn't recommend it for studying because it's not calendar based.

I also use Notion for... Everything. I like Notion because it's free and it's an incredibly powerful software. I use it to take notes, archive stuff... Check it out.

That being said, let's start with work.

I do a monitoring job, so I don't have to plan a lot for it - mostly I just take notes on what happened. Which is a very important part, still.

In this case if I have a project I delegate my main job (monitoring) and I do my project immediately, because chances are the client wants the thing done immediately. If the project needs two or more people to be done I tend to take the project manager role in this case and I assign everyone a part of the project, I tell them what the results I expect are and what is the deadline (usually the end of my shift).

I use an A5 size planner (I use hobonichi, because planners are a hobby for me, but you can use whatever daily planner for this). That planner never leaves my desk - I'm under a NDA and if I lose it it's going to be Big Trouble.

Home life (chores etc).

I do a monitoring job, but I also work on shifts. When you work in shifts you get what I call "the curse of the shift worker", because you kind of stop thinking in Mon-Sun and start thinking according to the hours you work. But my boyfriend, family and friends are 9-5 workers so it's difficult.

In this case I did two things:

Ended up delegating chores to a third person (hiring an housekeeper);

I asked chatGPT (but you can do it on your own, I used it as a test) to make me a chore list divided for one shift worker (and I gave it my shifts) and one "regular worker".

The latter in particular was an interesting experiment, that worked, mostly. ChatGPT( that's also regressing) suggested me to do chores at like 4 am before my shift, which I discarded.

I can suggest you an app though: Sweepy. It's free for one person,and 15€/year for a household if you live with other people, which is a good price for what's being offered. The main feature is that it reminds you to do things like cleaning the windows, fridge... Basically the monthly basis stuff.

I have a common calendar in the kitchen where everyone puts in their appointments and stuff, my shifts etc. I also use a personal planner to write on the stuff I need to do on a specific day, take notes on what needs to be done (eventually lol) and what I want to do.

Personal projects pt. 1 volunteering/semi-professional activities.

This is complicated because the projects are not under my control (they have their own coordinator) and full of people that are as busy as me.

We generally do a meeting every couple of weeks until the project is done. My parts generally can be done in one hour or two/weeks. I tend to do it right after work and I generally avoid the commitment to organise everything - I will let others do it. For the deepfake project i will see in September how to fit it in my schedule because that's MY PROJECT.

My notes are in my personal planner in this case.

Personal projects pt. 2 - Hobbies

For my hobbies I don't have a project planned out. Like I like to learn languages but I don't really keep track of it and I don't plan for it. I go with inertia by habit. I do 30 minutes of languages everyday. Also Duolingo keeps everything for me. There are better apps for sure but Duolingo is free.

For my writing, I also don't have a real plan. I have a writing notebook where I take notes (go look for Helen Redfern if you're interested). I use 4thewords (4,5€/month) because it's fun. If I don't want to actually write new stuff I pick up a writing exercise and do that instead. There is a commitment of 444 words/days, which for some days are a lot.

Gym? Well, I go when I'm home from work during the week and when I have the afternoon shift. No need to plan for it.

In this case I prefer to do things as they come to me, because there isn't a deadline or something. These are things I do because I want to do them, not because I have to and if I actually planned for them... I don't want to reduce my hobbies to another chore.

Studying

My job, which can be demanding on its own, has the feature that I need to constantly study. I have certifications, courses to take... I'm currently doing courses for red teaming for example.

I'm not going to lie, I hate studying. I'm slow, it's boring, I literally prefer to clean my cats litter boxes than studying. But I need to suck it up.

I'm experimenting with a Kanban board - someone suggested it to me on a Discord server I'm in,(Heart Breathings is a writer that has few videos on the subject). I divide it in "needs to be done", "doing", "done" and "needs to be reviewed" (if it's something I'm not sure if I actually know or not).

I have a home office so I have the space to implement such things.

I take 4 projects at time at most, regardless of difficulties etc. When I will start university again I will do 3 uni courses + 1 certification(I'm doing my degree in 4 years instead of three because I'm a worker). And it's A LOT. I don't recommend doing this unless you are forced by other situations in your life.

Conclusions

I know I seem like this super organised person but the truth is that I lose a lot. Things sometimes don't get done, I still forget to refill my meds, I still forget to do stuff I've promised myself to do. Just this week I lost a very important deadline for university for example.

I tell myself I'm satisfied when I hit 75% of what needed to be done that day, regardless if it was big or small. Due to my circumstances now I'm 50% - my dad's situation lives rent free in my head and I spend the day off work travelling to see him in another region and I get no free time.

Also, delegating is not bad. Delegating is essential. I understand the need to have control on the things so they get done the way you want it, but it cannot work. A household is not a one person project, like my Security Operations Center isn't. And while I know that if I do X I will be done the way I like it, but at the end of the day there is only 24 hours/day.

And yes, you will need to drop a few things here and there. There are things you can't delegate (such as doing that course you wanted to do), but you also can't fit in your schedule, and in that case you need to review the activities you do.

I also tend to spend a lot of time just... Doing nothing. It's fine. I need time to just stare at the wall.

I hope this helped. I know it's a lot of process, it took me years to get to a working system btw, it's not an overnight thing and it will always end up getting tweaked. I never was a "multiple planner gal", but I've decided to use two because taking my work planner around when I go to the doctor and losing it is a risk I don't want to take.

A lot of these things also overlap. I can study at work if there isn't anything better to do for example.

I really hope this is understandable to humans. I'm a professional time waster so I definitely don't feel all the 16 hours I'm awake, don't be fooled by how much commitment I have. I'm scrambling as everyone else!